Scene 12 – A nursing home #9, solo with chorus, This is the Perfect Nursing-home – AllegrettoScene 13 – Same. Reprise of #4, Salaam, sahibs, salaam!Scene 14 – A street, 1940 crowd scene #10, chorus, War is a Great and Glorious Thing! – Quick marchScene 15 – A scene of horror as war comesScene 16 – A room, 2200 #11, song (Bright young things), Auntie be a Sport – Moderato con motoScene 17 – A beautiful garden, 2350Scene 18 – Farther in the future; wordless, music plays throughout #12, instrumental, Scene and Finale (chorus not extant)

Libretto by:

Cyril Scott – Scenes 1, 4-7, 10, 11, 13, 17

Rose Allatini – Scenes 3, 12, 14

Brian Ross [= David Anrias] – Scenes 2, 8, 16

J. M[elanie] A. Mills [= H.K. Challoner] – Scenes 9, 15

composed c1933

unpublished

Notes: Ross and Mills were neighbours and friends of the Scotts for several years in the 1930s, and Scott penned introductions to ** of Ross’s and Mills’s occult books. CS states, “One capricious summer, while passing a holiday with my wife and two friends, we decided to pass the time in an amusing manner by concocting a Musical Show, which was to be distinguished from the customary Revue… by a plot. Having between us devised… a suitable humorous and dramatic theme, I then set about writing a certain proportion of the dialogue, the lyrics, and finally the music, which was of by no means high-brow quality.” CS’s self-conscious foray into a lighter musical style in this work lends weight to the authenticity of his earlier Dorothy Waltz, S.221, written in similar vein. Music #6 is the source, previously unrecognized, of his last published piano composition, S.262.